The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, southeast...

The chronology of the ancient Near East is a framework of dates for various events, rulers and dynasties. Historical inscriptions and texts customarily...

The religions of the ancient Near East were mostly polytheistic, with some examples of monolatry (for example, Yahwism and Atenism). Some scholars believe...

The Near East is a transcontinental region around the East Mediterranean encompassing parts of West Asia, the Balkans, North Africa, it also includes the...

earliest cities in history were in the ancient Near East, an area covering roughly that of the modern Middle East: its history began in the 4th millennium...

Ancient near eastern (ANE) cosmology refers to the plurality of cosmological beliefs in the Ancient Near East covering the 4th millennium BC to the formation...

Ancient Near East studies (or ANE studies) is the field of academic study of the ancient Near East (ANE). As such it is an umbrella term for Assyriology...

distinguishable), makes its appearance in early religious texts. Scholars of the Ancient Near East debate whether certain pieces of legislation regarding sexual offences...

The greater ancient Near East (including Egypt) offers some of the oldest evidence of the existence of international relations, since it was there that...

The Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (HMANE, previously the Harvard Semitic Museum) is a museum founded in 1889. It moved into its present location...

Age migrations (ancient Near East) Middle Eastern studies Near Eastern bioarchaeology Y-DNA haplogroups in populations of the Near East "Understanding...

The earliest scientific traditions of the ancient world developed in the Ancient Near East, with Ancient Egypt and Babylonia in Mesopotamia. Later traditions...

the Middle East Near Eastern Archaeology Near Eastern bioarchaeology ICAANE (International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East) Porter,...

These concepts originated for describing Iron Age Europe and the Ancient Near East. Still, they now include other parts of the Old World. The indigenous...

on the histories of individual countries. See ancient Near East for ancient history of the Middle East. 16000 BC – Kebaran period 13050 to 7050 BC – Natufian...

The Middle East, also known as the Near East, is home to one of the Cradles of Civilization and has seen many of the world's oldest cultures and civilizations...

Austria) Ancient Near East stretched from Turkey and the Mediterranean seaboard in the west to Iran and the Arabian Peninsula in the east. Over time...

effigies, such as the Argei in ancient Rome.[citation needed] Successful agricultural cities had already emerged in the Near East by the Neolithic, some protected...

related to: Sumer (category) Ancient Sumer History – The History of the Ancient Near East Electronic Compendium Iraq's Ancient Past – Penn Museum A brief...

one-third of the population died in infancy. Ancient Egyptian physicians were renowned in the ancient Near East for their healing skills, and some, such as...

Slavery in the ancient world, from the earliest known recorded evidence in Sumer to the pre-medieval Antiquity Mediterranean cultures, comprised a mixture...

it was suggested that peoples of the Ancient Near East engaged in sacred prostitution based on accounts of ancient Greek authors like Herodotus, the veracity...

Ancient Semitic religion encompasses the polytheistic religions of the Semitic peoples from the ancient Near East and Northeast Africa. Since the term...

Ancient Near East Monographs is an open-access monograph series focused on the Ancient Near East, including ancient Israel and its literature, from the...

612 BC, the Neo-Assyrian Empire asserted control over much of the ancient Near East. Subsequently, the Babylonians, who had long been overshadowed by...

a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East) beginning in the early 20th century. The term "Middle East" has led to some confusion...

Assyriā; and -λογία, -logia), also known as Cuneiform studies or Ancient Near East studies, is the archaeological, anthropological, historical, and linguistic...

in ancient Mesopotamia. Wedding ceremonies, as well as dowry and divorce, can be traced back to Mesopotamia and Babylonia. According to ancient Hebrew...

remission was institutionalised in the Ancient Near East and contributed to the stability of its societies. In ancient Greece and Rome the laws were more...

Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples or Proto-Semitic people were speakers of Semitic languages who lived throughout the ancient Near East and North Africa...